Life and Debt
Stephanie Black (电影制片人, 电影导演), Belinda Becker (旁白者), Michael Manley, Stanley Fischer, Michael Witter, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, David H. Coore, Jerry J. Rawlings, Malik Sayeed, John Mullen (动态影像编辑), Jamaica Kincaid, Tuff Gong Pictures (生产公司), New Yorker Video (Firm) (影片发行人)
This documentary examines the effects of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund loans on the infrastructure Jamaica established in the wake of independence from the UK in 1962. Seven billion in debt (circa 2000), Jamaica has seen its agricultural industries laid to waste by the impossibility of competing with subsidized, multi-national American based companies. The poverty of an "average" Jamaican in a shantytown near Kingston is in stark contrast to the luxurious tropical fantasy paradise experienced by tourists in posh Montego Bay. In a dog-eat-dog global economy, the US and its multinational corporate clients have all the advantages, while Jamaica has no agriculture, no industry, and no tax base--only ever-growing debt
DVD 视频, English, 2003
Collectors edition; Widescreen version
New Yorker Films Artwork, New York, NY, 2003